About me

Javier Alonso Torre

I have always felt a real passion for both Nature and photography, although not always at the same time. My childhood memories spread from going fishing to the river with my father to climbing up the trees searching for cherries while walking with grandpa. My love for photography is also given by my father, who would always carry in his hands an old reflex camera wrapped in an odd brown leather case. My first camera, the Pentax Asahi Spotmatic Spll is of father inheritance and can still take excellent pictures. While living in the Canary Islands (1995-1999), I start taking my first artistic pictures, but the high cost of the films and their developing placed the hobby in a stand-by position. It is years later, and thanks to passionate photographer and naturalist Txemi, when these two great passions were sealed, becoming somehow obsessive. Since then, I have never stopped learning: watching other photographers’ pictures, reading books, but specially playing with the camera. Both local photographers, who showed the beauty of their immediate vicinity, like Isabel Díaz, Asier Castro or Rosa Basurto, and worldwide renowned photographers, like Galen Rowell, José B. Ruiz or Mark Adamus, have influenced my artwork.

My work

I edit and coordinate since 2011 the magazine LNH, available from http://issuu.com/yfaerin/docs. Born as a personal project it has no other goal than promoting nature photography as well as the concerns and values that drive the authors involved.